MySQL Announces Record Cluster Database Benchmark Results

Submitted by Ty on April 30, 2007 - 2:00pm

MySQL AB announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were conducted in collaboration with Intel Corporation and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions.

The benchmark results show the very high scalability of MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, attaining a rate of 100,000 transactions per minute (TpM) using an 8-node cluster. In this benchmark, the latest generation of the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor family provided a significant step forward in scalability, showing a 75-percent speed improvement over tests run on previous generation Intel Xeon processor systems.